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...raised by a foreign policy issue like the Conoco deal do not admit of tidy solutions. Faced with the option of making an important (if symbolic) point or maintaining a stubbornly consistent foreign policy vis-a-vis all authoritarian regimes, the Clinton Administration chose the former. It was a correct decision...
President Clinton and Vice President Al Gore today described plans to make certain federal regulations less burdensome for businesses. Their proposed regulatory changes for the Food and Drug Administration and the Environmental Protection Agency include a six-month grace period for small businesses to correct violations, waiving fines for firms that violate minor rules, and letting pharmaceutical companies change the way they make some drugs without requiring them to get permission from the government. The House has approved deeper cuts in existing regulations and a moratorium on putting new rules into place. TIME Washington correspondent Dick Thompson says the Republican...
...When you have 27 or 30 students in [introductory] classes, it's really difficult to focus on speaking and proficiency and having the kids practice in the correct way," he said. "That's where the problem lies and that's where we'redirecting our funding...
...what an awful lot of white people actually believe. Take a look, for example, at a survey reported by the National Opinion Research Center in 1991, which found a majority of whites asserting that minorities are lazier, more violence-prone and less intelligent than whites. Even among the politically correct, the standard praise word for a minority person is "articulate,'' as if to say, "Isn't it amazing how well he can speak...
...film, which transports the Formica-loving clan to a '90s world of fast teenagers, evil developers and psychotherapy, was much more to his liking. But the stress took its toll: the day the film opened, at dinner Schwartz blacked out. He later had a pacemaker implanted to correct a heart condition--called, incredibly, bradycardia...